The Library

In keeping with the theme for children's poems as Rebecca suggested, here is one called The Library, by Barbara A. Huff. This was out of the book, Favorite Poems Old and New, by
Helen Ferris, which can be purchased here.

The Library

It looks like any building
When you pass it on the street,
Made of stone and glass and marble,
Made of iron and concrete.

But once inside you can ride
A camel, or a train,
Visit Rome, Siam, or Nome,
Feel a hurricane,
Meet a king, learn to sing,
How to bake a pie,
Go to sea, plant a tree,
Find how airplanes fly,
Train a horse, and of course
Have all the dogs you like,
See the moon, a sandy dune,
Or catch a whopping pike.
Everything that books can bring
You'll find inside those walls.
A world is there for you to share
When adventure calls.

You cannot tell it's magic
By the way the building looks,
But there's wonderment within it
The wonderment of books.